Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-23
OUERETARO.
4 Visit to the scene of NIaxImiIlian's Exe-
 cution.

\ Visit to the Soene of NIaxlmillian's Exc
 Cution.
 Queretaro is seven thousand feet high. It's population is fifty thousand, and is built on hill and is surrounded by hills. It was founded by the Aztecs, and was captured by the Spaniards in 1881. We went to the Hill of Bells, called 'El Ceno de las Campanas," southwest of the city, where Maximil- ian was captured and shot. The view from the hill presents to the eye one of the loveliest panoramas outside the val ley of Mexico. The valley is broad and full of verdure and large fields of wheat, barley, and alfalfa, and gar deus of bright blooming flowers are on every side. Long hills skirt the valley all around, and of upon the hill sits the city, it's glittering dOmes and white houses almost dazzling the eye. Near the brow of this bill we came to the three monuments marking the spot where Maximilian, Miramon, and Me ia were shot. The monuments once contained raised letters, in brass, re- citing the names and particulars of the tragedy, but the ruthless hand of the relic seeker or tiend have left but few of them to tell the tale. An iron rail- ing surrounds the monuments. One Mir. Bull took a fine sketch of it, and near by we cut a cane as a memento of our visit. We met an old soldier at the spot who was with the Mexicans under General Escobedo, and saw the emperor shot. lie pointed out to us the place where he was captured, and gave us pathetic account of his man. ly death. He confirmed in every par ticular the accepted accounts of his capture and death, and of the treachery that put him in the hands of the Mexi- cans. It was through the trcachery of Col. Miguel Lopez that the emperor was taken and his forces subsequently surrendered to the liberals. Maximil- ian was tried before q court-martial and sentenced to be shot. Persistent efforts were made to save his life. The Princess Salm- -Salm is said to have rid den to san Louis Potosi, the seat of the republican government, 160 miles dis tant, and begged Pre- ident Juarez to pardon the adventurcr from Miramar. The government of the United States was appealed to in vain. None of the European potentates ventured to inter- cede and AiaXimilian, together with his comrades in arms, Gems. Miramon and Mejia, was shot on June 19, 1867. His body was subsequently, taken to Vienna for interment. he night before the emperor s execution he wrote the fol- lowing letter to his wife, who was then maniac, confined in one of the pal aces of her father, the king of the Bel gians:
 ''Io My Beloved Carlotta: If God ever permits you to recover and read these lines, you will learn the cruelty of my fate which has not ceased to pur- sue me since your departure for Eu- rope. You carried with you my soul and my happiness. Why did 1 not lis- ten to youP So many events, alas! so many unexpected and unmerited catas- trophies have overwhelmed me that I have no more hope in my heart, and I await death as a delivering angel die without agony. 1 shall fall with glory, like soldier, like a conquering king. If you have not the power to bear so much suffering, if God soon re- unites us, shall bless the Divine and paternal hand which has so rudely stricken us. Adicu adieu! Thy poor
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 Alas, poor Maximiliau! As we stood on the spot where he was shot, we could not resist the temptation to pity his sad fate, in spite of the fact that he was usurper. We had seen the gild- ed coach in which he and his beloved Carlotta had driven in triumph over the wide paseos of the City of Cortez; we had paced up and down the marble portico of the grand palace of Chapul- tepec, where the eye of the emperor could take in the grandest and most magnificent panorama in the western word; we had seen his medals and decorations, his plate and his portrait, now on exhibition in Mexican mu- scum; and we stood on the spot water ed by his blood, and where his last ex- piring breath had gone mp to the Great Judge of all men, l repeat again: We pitied him, and we pitied the man who had power to save him and send him back to his dear Carlotta, and would not do it. In the language of our Dr. Richard McSherry: He died like a hero. He had done his best to redeem fallen country, but had failed" We left the hilltop and descended into the valley, and as we took a last look at the three mute monuments near the brow of the hill, we could not but think: He was 3 usurper, but had he lived, he might have done much for Mexico. But God knows best, and he alone can evolve good from eVil.-Mer- ico Cor. Baltimore American.